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Eminem, infamous for dropping scathing insults in his rhymes, has returned to his old ways with a newly leaked track off his joint Bad Meets Evil EP with Slaughterhouse member and fellow Detroiter Royce Da 5’9. An earlier report of the track “A Kiss” from the upcoming Em and Royce’s Hell: The Sequelrelease highlighted Slim Shady and his attack on the wildly popular Lady Gaga and using a clever pun

The house built by Jimmy Iovine just got a bit bigger via multi-platinum British producer Alex Da Kid. The Grammy award winning producer has inked a deal with Interscope to launch his KIDinaKORNER imprint. Current hook queen and singer/songwriter Skylar Grey is on tap as the label’s first release. Grey...

Rapper Ja Rule's time as a free man is winding down. With just under 24 hours to go, the Murder Inc. rapper is set to turn himself in tomorrow to begin a two year prison sentence at an upstate New York correctional facility. Last year the MC born Jeffery Atkins plead guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon charges following his arrest at a New York City concert dating back to 2007 when

This past Sunday at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards, Chicago rap darling Lupe Fiasco and West Coast rockers the Foo Fighters performed for the packed Gibson Amphitheatre crowd during the ceremony, and it appears that Lupe’s performance is starting to pay dividends. Read more......

For some rappers, it's impossible to understand their popularity and impact until you visit their hometown. Tech N9ne, an underground king in the Midwest is one such artist. MTV was out in Kansas City, MO to catch up with the Strange Music general and got the chance to attend his hometown stop on his "All 6's And 7's" tour, which was the 9th stop on his 62-city tour to support his twelft

Legendary hip hop collective and band The Roots take a break in their already full schedules of one off shows, tours and their nightly late show gig with Jimmy Fallon to host the "4th annual Roots Picnic" in their hometown of Philadelphia. Rea...

Former first lady of the celebrated Fugees Lauryn Hill is expecting her sixth child and confirmed the news at a concert this past Saturday (June 4) in Detroit. Read more...

Yesterday the infamous Summer Jam radio show took place across the water from the city that never sleeps. In past years the Hot 97 sponsored event has become the launching pad for some of Hip-Hop's biggest beefs amongst the genre's superstar MCs. Yea...

Before Eminem produced “Renegade” for Jay-Z’s classic 2001 album The Blueprint, the track originally featured Royce Da 5’9”. On Wedneseday's (May18) “RapFix Live” Eminem explained to Sway how the song went from a Bad Meets Evil track into the hands of Jigga Man. “That record was actually made—we were starting...

Being in a rap squad with four lyrically capable MCs can be tough on group chemistry, but let Slaughterhouse tell it and the quartet which features Royce Da 5’9”, Joe Budden, Crooked I and Joell Ortiz have it all figured out. On Wednesday’s “RapFix Live” the foursome broke down their formula. It all starts with a beat, and as...

Yesterday (May 25) on another exciting edition of the hottest rap talk show on the globe “RapFix Live,” our own Sway had the good fellas from the Maybach Music Group open up about the powerful union of artists under the tutelage of Miami star Rick Ross. Gracing the cou...

What's beef? Certainly not the Rick Ross v 50 Cent feud. As the on wax rivalry comes to a close, some of Fif's labelmates have begun to turn over a new leaf by working with his rap nemesis'. Take Prodigy for example, upon his release from a three year prison bid among the top priorities on his list was to reach out to a few MCs he respected who was getting it in and work with them...